Walter Abbott (soccer player, 1898)

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Walter Abbott
Personnel
Surname Walter A. Abbott
birthday December 16, 1898
place of birth Birmingham ,  England
date of death 2nd quarter 1945
Place of death Birmingham ,  England
position Half-forward (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1920 Grimsby Town 5 (0)
1920-1921 Chesterfield Municipal 26 (5)
1921-1922 Worcester City (8th)
1922-1923 Tamworth Castle
1923-1925 Oakengates Town
1925-1926 Tamworth Castle
Stewart Street Old Boys
1 Only league games are given.

Walter A. Abbott (born December 16, 1898 in Birmingham ; † 2nd quarter 1945 there ) was an English football player .

Career

Abbott, son of the English national player of the same name, Walter Abbott , made his debut in January 1920 as a test player for the Grimsby Town reserve team and scored the winning goal in the 3-2 win against the reserves of Barnsley FC . In the following weeks Abbott appeared regularly as a goalscorer for the reserve team, including in the games against Chesterfield Municipal ( final scores 1: 1 and 1: 2) and in the 1-0 win over the reserves of Lincoln City . In early March 1920 he received from the Football Association permission to train in his place of residence at Birmingham FC . At the end of the month he made his debut in the Football League Second Division for Grimsby in a 2-0 home win over Port Vale .

In April 1920, four more league missions followed in Grimsby's first team on the left half- forward position , in which he worked together with left winger Albert Smith and center forward Harry Storer . The two home games against Clapton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur also ended with 2-0 wins. Despite these three successes, the club rose at the end of the season as bottom of the table in the newly created Third Division and Abbott joined the Midland League playing club Chesterfield Municipal , against whom he had recently met twice. Abbott played 26 league games for Chesterfield during the season, mostly he formed the right attacking side with Herbert Mosley when the club finished third at the end of the season and successfully applied for a return to the Football League .

For Abbott himself, however, there was no return to the Football League, in the 1921/22 season he played in the Birmingham & District League for Worcester City and scored nine goals in 19 competitive appearances, making him the third best goalscorer of the after Harry Parsonage and Arthur Hall Teams. In July 1922 he was traded as a newcomer for the position of center runner at league rivals Tamworth Castle, but at the start of the season he was called up at Tamworth as a center forward and scored in the 3: 4 defeat by Redditch. In September 1922 he lost with Tamworth in the final of the Nuneaton Charity Cup against Nuneaton Town with 1: 2, Abbott had scored shortly before the end of the game. Tamworth finished last in the table and retired to the Birmingham Combination , Abbott, however, remained in the league and played the following two seasons for Oakengates Town.

For the 1925/26 season he returned to Tamworth Castle; In October 1925, a team photo was printed in the local newspaper on the occasion of an 8-2 success in the Birmingham Combination via Walsall Wood. Most recently, he was active at the local level in Birmingham for Stewart Street Old Boys .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield Municipal FC: the non-league players, 1919-21 , accessed January 21, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
  2. ^ Rob Briggs & Dave Wherry: Mariner Men: Grimsby Town Who's Who 1892–2007 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2011, ISBN 978-0-9552949-8-3 , pp. 4 .
  3. ↑ GRIMSBY TOWN RES. v. BARNSLEY RES. . In: Star Green 'un , January 31, 1920, p. 3.  (link with costs)
  4. ↑ A Valuable Point Dropped. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , February 9, 1920, p. 9.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ GRIMSBY TOWN RES. v. CHESTERFIELD MUNICIPAL. . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , March 22, 1920, p. 5.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ GRIMSBY TOWN R v. LINCOLN CITY RES . In: Star Green 'un , February 28, 1920, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  7. ↑ FOOTBALL. Draw and Venues for Cup Semi-Finals. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , March 9, 1920, p. 9.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ cf. Dave Wherry: The Grimsby Town Story: 1878-2008 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2008, ISBN 978-0-9557889-3-2 , pp. 200 .
  9. ↑ cfchistory.com: Chesterfield FC, 1920-1 , accessed January 21, 2019 ( Microsoft Excel )
  10. ^ Bill Cook, Julian Pugh: The Official History of Worcester City FC . Britesport Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-904103-99-8 , pp. 23; 219 .
  11. ↑ TAMWORTH CASTLE FC . In: Tamworth Herald , July 29, 1922, p. 2.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ FOOTBALL. BIRMINGHAM AND DISTRICT LEAGUE. TAMWORTH CASTLE v. REDDITCH. . In: Tamworth Herald , September 2, 1922, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
  13. ↑ NUNEATON CHARITY CUP. FINAL. TAMWORTH CASTLE v. NUNEATON TOWN. . In: Tamworth Herald , September 23, 1922, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
  14. ↑ BIRMINGHAM COMBINATION. TAMWORTH CASTLE v. BROMSGROVE ROVERS. . In: Tamworth Herald , September 5, 1925, p. 7.  (paid link)
  15. ↑ TAMWORTH CASTLE FOOTBALL CLUB . In: Tamworth Herald , October 24, 1925, p. 6.  (paid link)
  16. ↑ Stuart Basson: Lucky Whites and Spireites: Who's Who Chesterfield FC Yore Publications, Harefield 1998, ISBN 978-1-874427-03-2 , pp. 8 .
personal data
SURNAME Abbott, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbott, Walter A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH between April 1, 1945 and June 30, 1945
Place of death Birmingham